WASHINGTON — The late Marion Barry was remembered Sunday as a man who
instilled pride and respect for a neglected neighborhood in the nation’s
capital.
A vigil was held outside Barry’s Ward 8 home. It drew women
clutching infants, old men using canes — people whose lives were touched by
Barry.
“Marion Barry is not dead, he lives in your heart, your spirit, my heart, my
spirit. He lives in this city, he’s in the very asphalt, concrete of this
city.
He shall never die,” Rev. Graylan Hagler, pastor at the Plymouth United Church
of Christ, said through a megaphone.
The vigil ended at an Anacostia landmark, the Big Chair.
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